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0 commentsBella Morte bassist Gopal Metro is excited about the band's new album, Bleed The Grey Sky Black, and not just because it was released this week. Even while they were still working on it, he found it...

0 commentsRuth Stone opened up her home to several troubled foster kids in the mid-1980s– but she worries today whether she really made a difference.
"Things didn't turn out well for kids I really cared...

0 commentsGeorge Telford remembers the rise of Nazi Germany– and the role of some major religious organizations. "Some were co-opted by the Nazis; others were fearful and silent," he says. "Never again...

0 commentsDonna Lucey doesn't believe in ghosts. At least she didn't before she started writing Archie and Amélie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age.
While researching the tumultuous relationship between...

0 commentsOn Saturday mornings, typical teenagers sleep in, IM their friends, hook up to their iPods, and generally laze around. But for 11 young members of the local Boys and Girls Club, since last May,...

0 commentsIf you ask Shane Wood why he decided to join the Army, he won't talk about a sense of duty, or patriotism, or even the fact that it paid for his college education. "Honestly, they got me with all the...

0 commentsTo look at her, you might not guess Susanna Kurner could belt out Wagner with the best of them. The lithe 31-year-old says she's used to people expressing surprise at her vocal prowess.
"I used to...

0 commentsFred Benzinger was turned down for a bank loan to buy the 16 acres in Ruckersville where he's bred and sold daylilies since 1958. Today, if his deal to sell the property gets county approval,...

0 commentsMarriage keeps kids safer. Women are happier married to men who earn bigger bucks than they do. Neighborhoods with fathers are less crime-ridden than those with a majority of single mothers.
Think...

0 commentsBlues aficionados know that authenticity doesn't always translate to record sales. Sometimes, it seems to take a John Mayer vanity project to get people to pay attention.
To some extent, however, Eli...

0 commentsAs a Marine, Scott Trice was one of the few, the proud... the clean. "We were required to do inspection," he says, "and part of our inspection was janitorial service."
Eighteen years after his...

0 commentsBeing born with hemophilia? Bad break. Diagnosed with HIV at age 11? Another bad break. Getting your first book picked up by a top New York agent and sold to a top publishing house? Good deal.
All...

0 commentsIn preparation for writing the unauthorized biography of literary icon Harper Lee, Greene County resident Charles J. Shields put together a comprehensive book proposal. He included a lengthy list of...

0 commentsNon-scientists probably never stop to analyze how our bodies grow from six or eight-pound infants at birth to mature adults of considerably larger bulk. One way is that cells have a built-in...

0 commentsArt is one thing that brings newcomers to Charlottesville, and that has the tendency to drive up prices for the rest of us. But could Art, in a strange turnabout, actually brings us together?...

0 comments"Its a great misconception that belly dancing exists to entertain men," says instructor and performer "Shakti." "In the Middle East, good girls dont perform for strangers in public for money....

0 commentsWhen passersby spot the exercises and meditation by Xidong "Joshua" Li on the UVA Lawn, they might assume he's practicing T'ai Chi. But in fact, Li and a small group who meet for this Saturday...

0 commentsAs the weather warms and cycling season heats up with new trends and equipment, one thing stays the same: the cookie lady.
In a sense, June Curry is a world traveler. Artifacts from around the globe...

0 commentsHal Brindley sits smiling in the back of the brick-walled Creature Gallery, having just received a call from HGTV. The cable favorite of do-it-yourselfers had received a tip suggesting it give...

0 commentsAnne Slaughter saw the film Mrs. Henderson Presents, and she walked out shaking. Set in WWII-era Britain, the story stirred memories of the Belgian-born artist's childhood, when her doctor-turned-...

0 commentsHe's worked as a cartoonist in Paris. He once helped modernize Nigeria's postal system. His architecture is award-winning. He has three children's books in print. He's about to thru-hike the...

0 commentsRosamond Casey knows exactly what kind of fame she wants. The 54-year-old artist imagines standing outside a circus tent filled with literati and celebrities. She lifts a corner of the canvas to peek...